A better one was the business that they were getting sued for Trade Descriptions for describing the product as an audio CD when it did not follow Audio CD formatting rules - anyone know what happened with that? (That could have some interesting consequences for PC CD games with mangled volume tables)
Computer chess is also a much different system. Chess is a game where 99% of what is done CAN be simulated by current technology. The computer can have a library of common openings and traps and whatnot. It can evaluate every possible move. With billiards, the computer can't tell me how hard to strike the cue ball, what english I need, and so on. Determining angles can *help*, but it's no substitute for a professional player who knows which shot to take, even if it's not the easiest shot available.
Since Cg is designed specifically for vertex and pixel shader programs, DirectX versions 8 and 9 are supported as well as OpenGL 1.4. The compiler itself is cross platform; in particular programs written for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Xbox are supported. And if all that isn't enough, the compiler can create code for all GPUs that support DirectX 8 (or above) and/or OpenGL 1.4, making it very universal. In keeping with Linux tradition, NVIDIA has open-sourced certain components of the compiler, allowing content developers to add their own customizations as well.
Do you even read articles? How did you get modded insightful? Do moderators read articles?
I hit that link from IE, and it worked. Now, I may be stupid, but it appears to be an html file with the.jpg extension. As such, I'd imagine (although who can predict how ms software will behave) that it's subject to the same security policies as normal html, and shouldn't be able to do anything malicious to your system. It seems normal to me that IE (a browser, afterall) would recognize html and render it as such. If it runs it with local zone permissions, though...that's another story. Someone fill me in if I'm entirely wrong here...
By agreeing to "not place restrictions on the use" are they not effectively granting a license? It was my understanding (disclaimer: IANAL) that if they *allow* you to use the code now, they can't come back a year later and demand licensing fees. But this isn't really my area of expertise...mostly just stuff I've picked up from being here too much;)
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Since it seems we have the developer here, here comes the standard slashdot question: when can we expect the linux version?;)
Oh yeah, and the thought of some strange form of p2p 'risk' type game as mentioned above sounds damn nifty.
Either 'Personal Digital Assistant' (ie Palm Pilot) or 'Public Display of Affection'. I'd assume he meant the former, but there's no reason you can't graffito tag the teenagers making out on the park bench...
Radio has given me 'free' access to thousands of songs, grouped by genre. It may not be entirely free, since there are adverts, but I change stations during commercials (I know, I'm a thief...). If I didn't have access to this 'free' music, I would never get to sample different artists / genres, and wouldn't purchase any of their music. File sharing works much the same. Say I hear about artist 'x', in a review, on the radio, whatever. If I can sample more of this artist's music without forking over $20, that's great. If I like it, I buy it. If not, I don't. This pisses off the RIAA since they've been using this business ploy for years. They hook you with one good song, and never tell you that the rest of the disc is utter trash. They want you to spend your money to find that out. This is how they make money. Downloading music is no different than me going and standing in a record store to preview a disc, except that I get to keep copies of what I download. Mind you, most of them are 128 kbit garbage, but I have them. They're not a substitute for a cd. If these idiots would realize that they're getting free advertising out of this, we could end the nonsense. But they don't want you to find out their product sucks until after you buy it, and that's why they'll fight tooth and nail over file sharing.
That's the sacrifice we as web designers have to make. IE holds the lion's share of the browser market, and we can't expect MS to change the way it behaves in regards to web standards just to please you communist Moz users - it's an integrated part of their OS!!! Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to re-insert my head into my own anus.
p.s. - I do web design, and when I need to see how everything looks, I fire up Galeon. If we could get more web developers on Moz we'd have a much better looking/behaving web.
You hit the nail right on the head. People seem to think that the 'free' part of 'free software' means free in all senses of the word. Whether anyone likes to admit it or not, time is money. We all put a price on our time when we go to work. Some people choose to use their leisure time developing software, and ask no monetary recompense. All they ask is that you agree to their licensing terms. This is no different than paying for SocketWrench or any other library/toolset for programming. If you want the functionality of the library, pay for it. If you don't want to pay, write your own version - there's no law saying that you can't write your own code. But if you want the ease and stability of a tried and tested solution, then follow the licensing agreement. These people put their own time and money into a project and the least we can do is follow their guidelines when using their products.
Actually, they are being fair in saying that you're stealing (if in fact the hundred hours is "pirated"). If they make a claim that you should pay them for all 5000 hours though, that's different. Your argument is flawed. The main thing here, though, is that nobody's forcing anyone to use gpl'd code. Don't like the license restrictions? Write your own damn code. Want to use the gpl'd code? Agree to the license. It's like any other software - agree to the licensing terms, or just don't use it.
And you don't suppose that any open source they adapted for use in controlling airplanes would get the same rigorous testing? You think the FAA would just download ControlTower v1.0 from sourceforge, compile it, and go?
Now, IANALOEVS (I am not a lawyer, or even very smart) but I can't see how these two are the same. Nowhere in AMD's literature to they claim that the number after XP is a measurement of Mhz, only a measurement of it's performance relative to other AthlonXPs. I have a Hewlett Packard 4500 laser printer, but I don't expect it to print 4500 pages per minute, print at 4500 x 4500, or give me $4500 USD for the privelege of being my printer. The number is marketing, and unless they claim that it's something it's not, I can't see calling it false advertising. But again, IANAL...
It's just marketing crap. Probably to make it look like they're not that far behind Intel. I don't think it's false advertising, since they don't claim anywhere that it's an AthlonXP 2200 Mhz. The 2200 is just a number. And they're not all 500 over their actual Mhz speed. I have an XP 1700 that runs at 1.46 Ghz.
The real question as I see it is why would something calling itself NEWSforge post this drivel? I realize they're all part of VA/whatever, but this crap should at best be left to slashdot, since everyone knows the "editors" here can't be taken seriously. You can't really hurt slashdot's reputation, since it's already perceived as a hangout for elitist pro-linux / anti-MS types anyways (and rightfully so), but posting a story like that on the FRONT PAGE of an alleged news site is damn suicide.
There's a fundamental difference between software and music. Even without copyright, musicians make money by touring. From what I've heard (I'm no expert) that's the main source of revenue anyways. I don't think there are many gpl software developers raking in cash on public appearances, unless they're giving seminars or teaching, which would make sense...
Yeah, he can write, as in 'he is able to string together words into a cohesive sentence', but roblimo should still pretty much be ashamed of himself. Somehow I fail to see how childish pointing and laughing at the non-linux-using masses is helping the reputation of the opensource movement. If someone in his position, as an editor of a popular tech/geek news site has nothing to offer but that drivel...how the hell is linux going to gain the wide-spread acceptance that we'd all love to see? I remember my own first days with linux, trying to learn, getting so frustrated with the jackasses on irc who were so pompous, who only mocked L0z3rz who came to them for help, and almost giving up until I bought a few books, read some documentation, learned the man system...but I thought to myself that if all the linux folk were such retards then it was no wonder not more people used it...how do you learn when nobody's willing to share what they know? Then to see someone in the position of roblimo with the ability to reach a large readership pull shit like this...it blows my fucking mind. Way to go, dipshit.
That's what I thought too. I actually read a "critique" shortly afterwards from some dipshit who thought that the onion had changed and wasn't being as edgy as they normally are. It was a delicate situation, and they managed to make people laugh about it without being disrespectful. I had been reading the onion for years, but after that, much like you, I actually *respected* them for more than just their humour.
Hey, cut them some slack. It only took five months to find a hole in a protocol that nobody's used in...what...seven, eight years? We should have all the IE/Outlook bugs patched up sometime around 2026.
The same way we get targeted advertising now. Ever notice the lack of ads for 'feminine hygiene products' during the Superbowl? They target the audience. Football game = beer and car commercials. Ally McBeal = tampon and shopping commercials. Two o'clock in the morning tv watching = 'phone chat' (wink wink) commercials. They already target the audience, no need to target the individuals.
maybe that was his point. with everything MS moving towards a subscription model, and licensing so expensive already, how long until everyone starts to realize the savings of not using MS products?
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A better one was the business that they were getting sued for Trade Descriptions for describing the product as an audio CD when it did not follow Audio CD formatting rules - anyone know what happened with that? (That could have some interesting consequences for PC CD games with mangled volume tables)
PC CD games don't claim to be CDDA.
More worringly, I wonder what a Femalestrom would look like?
Probably just like a malestrom, but without the blade.
Computer chess is also a much different system. Chess is a game where 99% of what is done CAN be simulated by current technology. The computer can have a library of common openings and traps and whatnot. It can evaluate every possible move. With billiards, the computer can't tell me how hard to strike the cue ball, what english I need, and so on. Determining angles can *help*, but it's no substitute for a professional player who knows which shot to take, even if it's not the easiest shot available.
Since Cg is designed specifically for vertex and pixel shader programs, DirectX versions 8 and 9 are supported as well as OpenGL 1.4. The compiler itself is cross platform; in particular programs written for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Xbox are supported. And if all that isn't enough, the compiler can create code for all GPUs that support DirectX 8 (or above) and/or OpenGL 1.4, making it very universal. In keeping with Linux tradition, NVIDIA has open-sourced certain components of the compiler, allowing content developers to add their own customizations as well.
Do you even read articles? How did you get modded insightful? Do moderators read articles?
So then, on the contrary, this looks like it could actually help multi-platform game development. Good.
I hit that link from IE, and it worked. Now, I may be stupid, but it appears to be an html file with the .jpg extension. As such, I'd imagine (although who can predict how ms software will behave) that it's subject to the same security policies as normal html, and shouldn't be able to do anything malicious to your system. It seems normal to me that IE (a browser, afterall) would recognize html and render it as such. If it runs it with local zone permissions, though...that's another story. Someone fill me in if I'm entirely wrong here...
By agreeing to "not place restrictions on the use" are they not effectively granting a license? It was my understanding (disclaimer: IANAL) that if they *allow* you to use the code now, they can't come back a year later and demand licensing fees. But this isn't really my area of expertise...mostly just stuff I've picked up from being here too much ;)
Since it seems we have the developer here, here comes the standard slashdot question: when can we expect the linux version? ;)
Oh yeah, and the thought of some strange form of p2p 'risk' type game as mentioned above sounds damn nifty.
Either 'Personal Digital Assistant' (ie Palm Pilot) or 'Public Display of Affection'. I'd assume he meant the former, but there's no reason you can't graffito tag the teenagers making out on the park bench...
Radio has given me 'free' access to thousands of songs, grouped by genre. It may not be entirely free, since there are adverts, but I change stations during commercials (I know, I'm a thief...). If I didn't have access to this 'free' music, I would never get to sample different artists / genres, and wouldn't purchase any of their music. File sharing works much the same. Say I hear about artist 'x', in a review, on the radio, whatever. If I can sample more of this artist's music without forking over $20, that's great. If I like it, I buy it. If not, I don't. This pisses off the RIAA since they've been using this business ploy for years. They hook you with one good song, and never tell you that the rest of the disc is utter trash. They want you to spend your money to find that out. This is how they make money. Downloading music is no different than me going and standing in a record store to preview a disc, except that I get to keep copies of what I download. Mind you, most of them are 128 kbit garbage, but I have them. They're not a substitute for a cd. If these idiots would realize that they're getting free advertising out of this, we could end the nonsense. But they don't want you to find out their product sucks until after you buy it, and that's why they'll fight tooth and nail over file sharing.
That's the sacrifice we as web designers have to make. IE holds the lion's share of the browser market, and we can't expect MS to change the way it behaves in regards to web standards just to please you communist Moz users - it's an integrated part of their OS!!! Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to re-insert my head into my own anus.
p.s. - I do web design, and when I need to see how everything looks, I fire up Galeon. If we could get more web developers on Moz we'd have a much better looking/behaving web.
You hit the nail right on the head. People seem to think that the 'free' part of 'free software' means free in all senses of the word. Whether anyone likes to admit it or not, time is money. We all put a price on our time when we go to work. Some people choose to use their leisure time developing software, and ask no monetary recompense. All they ask is that you agree to their licensing terms. This is no different than paying for SocketWrench or any other library/toolset for programming. If you want the functionality of the library, pay for it. If you don't want to pay, write your own version - there's no law saying that you can't write your own code. But if you want the ease and stability of a tried and tested solution, then follow the licensing agreement. These people put their own time and money into a project and the least we can do is follow their guidelines when using their products.
Actually, they are being fair in saying that you're stealing (if in fact the hundred hours is "pirated"). If they make a claim that you should pay them for all 5000 hours though, that's different. Your argument is flawed. The main thing here, though, is that nobody's forcing anyone to use gpl'd code. Don't like the license restrictions? Write your own damn code. Want to use the gpl'd code? Agree to the license. It's like any other software - agree to the licensing terms, or just don't use it.
And you don't suppose that any open source they adapted for use in controlling airplanes would get the same rigorous testing? You think the FAA would just download ControlTower v1.0 from sourceforge, compile it, and go?
Now, IANALOEVS (I am not a lawyer, or even very smart) but I can't see how these two are the same. Nowhere in AMD's literature to they claim that the number after XP is a measurement of Mhz, only a measurement of it's performance relative to other AthlonXPs. I have a Hewlett Packard 4500 laser printer, but I don't expect it to print 4500 pages per minute, print at 4500 x 4500, or give me $4500 USD for the privelege of being my printer. The number is marketing, and unless they claim that it's something it's not, I can't see calling it false advertising. But again, IANAL...
It's just marketing crap. Probably to make it look like they're not that far behind Intel. I don't think it's false advertising, since they don't claim anywhere that it's an AthlonXP 2200 Mhz. The 2200 is just a number. And they're not all 500 over their actual Mhz speed. I have an XP 1700 that runs at 1.46 Ghz.
The real question as I see it is why would something calling itself NEWSforge post this drivel? I realize they're all part of VA/whatever, but this crap should at best be left to slashdot, since everyone knows the "editors" here can't be taken seriously. You can't really hurt slashdot's reputation, since it's already perceived as a hangout for elitist pro-linux / anti-MS types anyways (and rightfully so), but posting a story like that on the FRONT PAGE of an alleged news site is damn suicide.
What if she's GPLed? Oh, you probably wouldn't want her anyways then...
There's a fundamental difference between software and music. Even without copyright, musicians make money by touring. From what I've heard (I'm no expert) that's the main source of revenue anyways. I don't think there are many gpl software developers raking in cash on public appearances, unless they're giving seminars or teaching, which would make sense...
Yeah, he can write, as in 'he is able to string together words into a cohesive sentence', but roblimo should still pretty much be ashamed of himself. Somehow I fail to see how childish pointing and laughing at the non-linux-using masses is helping the reputation of the opensource movement. If someone in his position, as an editor of a popular tech/geek news site has nothing to offer but that drivel...how the hell is linux going to gain the wide-spread acceptance that we'd all love to see? I remember my own first days with linux, trying to learn, getting so frustrated with the jackasses on irc who were so pompous, who only mocked L0z3rz who came to them for help, and almost giving up until I bought a few books, read some documentation, learned the man system...but I thought to myself that if all the linux folk were such retards then it was no wonder not more people used it...how do you learn when nobody's willing to share what they know? Then to see someone in the position of roblimo with the ability to reach a large readership pull shit like this...it blows my fucking mind. Way to go, dipshit.
No, no, you were right...this IS completely different. As you said, the Beijing news is run by professional editors...
That's what I thought too. I actually read a "critique" shortly afterwards from some dipshit who thought that the onion had changed and wasn't being as edgy as they normally are. It was a delicate situation, and they managed to make people laugh about it without being disrespectful. I had been reading the onion for years, but after that, much like you, I actually *respected* them for more than just their humour.
Hey, cut them some slack. It only took five months to find a hole in a protocol that nobody's used in...what...seven, eight years? We should have all the IE/Outlook bugs patched up sometime around 2026.
The same way we get targeted advertising now. Ever notice the lack of ads for 'feminine hygiene products' during the Superbowl? They target the audience. Football game = beer and car commercials. Ally McBeal = tampon and shopping commercials. Two o'clock in the morning tv watching = 'phone chat' (wink wink) commercials. They already target the audience, no need to target the individuals.
maybe that was his point. with everything MS moving towards a subscription model, and licensing so expensive already, how long until everyone starts to realize the savings of not using MS products?